299191 - Signature below reply doesn't add dashes when replying to mail

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Ray Trent]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050609 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050609 Firefox/1.0+

I decided to try out having my .sig file be above the quoted material to see how
it worked, and I discovered this strange behavior. If you hit "Ctrl-R" to reply
to a message, the .sig file is added with no "--" line above it. However, if you
hit "Ctrl-M" to create a new message, the "--" is added. This doesn't happen
with the default .sig below quote setting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change Composition preferences to Automatically quote, start my reply above
the quote, and place my signature below my reply (above the quote).
2. Create a new message with Ctrl-M
3. Reply to a message with Ctrl-R

Actual Results:  
Ctrl-M opens a window with "--" above the .sig, and Ctrl-R opens one with no "--".

Expected Results:  
Consistent results. I could work around either having it always add the "--" or
never adding the "--", but having it do one sometimes and the other sometimes is
quite frustrating.

Account is IMAP. Thunderbird version 1.0+ (20050629). I have a reasonably quirky
local folder arrangement, but I don't see how that could have any effect.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

This is as designed. Including the "-- " on when top-replying would make
everything under it part of the sig. There was a *lengthy* discussion about this
in bug 62429. 

Comment 2

[Ray Trent]

Gods, what a mess. 

Is there a pref to turn off the "--" entirely, so that at least it's consistent? 

I will say, though, that now that we have separate settings for this stuff per
account, that it might make sense to revisit this idea. For business email,
reply above, quote below is a useful scheme. It's bad news in news, so don't do
it in news...???

Anyway, it doesn't seem worth fighting for, so I'll resolve it. If someone knows
the answer to my pref question above I'd still appreciate a reply...

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 311888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***